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• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Umpires, Majority, Too Much

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• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Children, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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• Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Believe, Heart, Puja

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• If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

  David Jeremiah

  Spiritual, Believe, Keys

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  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

  John Locke

  Men, Littles, Information

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• We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

  Charles Kuralt

  Achievement, Credit, Fortune

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

  Ernest Holmes

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.459, Penguin

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• The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn’t have. It’s very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that’s going wrong in society.

  Michael Pollan

  Believe, Thinking, Media

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

  William James

  Attitude, Alive, Authenticity

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• We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.

  Neil Cavuto

  Smile, Teaching, Kids

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• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Good Morning, Mean, Years

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• The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Character, Men, Clothes

  Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.13, Kregel Publications

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• To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

  John Milius

  Being Strong, Courage, Simple

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• I argued that I didn't have any of the attributes to pose for cheesecake. I said I would have to make good on my acting ability, which was the only attribute I could offer.

  Teresa Wright

  Umpires, Acting, Cheesecake

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  I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

  Florence Nightingale

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" by Frank McCourt and Erin Gruwell, (p. 410), 2007.

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• We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Philosophical, Umpires, Literature

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.28, Knickerbocker Classics

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• The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

  Bela Lugosi

  Vampire, Roles, Fever

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Exhausted

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• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Desmond Tutu

  Land, Umpires, White

  Guardian Weekly, London, April 8, 1984.

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Father, Real

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• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Umpires, Track

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Philosophy, Men, World

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• Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know, and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin. I think, you know, that, you know, that the companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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